Recipient of the 2001 Smart Marriages Impact Award - click for Case for Marriage articles and to take QUIZ
"In this cynical, high-divorce society, this important book is a MUST read." - John Gottman
"The bible for every 'smart' marriage educator." - Diane Sollee

Recipient of the AASCET 2011 BEST BOOK AWARD. Metz and McCarthy inspire and motivate with real-life examples and clear, helpful exercises to reach for realistic, high quality sexual satisfaction in any lifelong relationship. They promote positive, realistic expectations without commercialism and the hype that sets people up for disappointment. They advocate a down to earth “Good Enough Sex” (GES) model for all couples from their 20s to 80s, which validates the inherent variability and flexibility of couple sexuality.

Married couples, juggling the demands of life, often fail to nurture the fun, playful and sexy side of their relationship. Over time, this neglect creates an increasing spiral of dysfunction. Learn practical (and fun) steps to get your marriage out of the rut, recapture the pleasure romance, and revive the playful side of sex that makes it the enjoyable experience it’s supposed to be. Clinicians, get the bonus of increasing not only the success, but also the fun you have in your clinical work.

A clear-eyed, rational route to demystifying disagreements and improving relationships by thinking like an economist and focusing on resource allocation. How do we—as partners in a society, a business, or a marriage—spend our limited time, money, and energy? How do we allocate these resources most efficiently? Classic economic concepts – loss averersion, cost-benefit analysis, incentives, supply and demand – are creatively applied to the domestic front: to sex, disagreements, decision making, being "too busy", in-laws, etc.

In our fast-paced world of longer working hours and endless distractions, it's difficult to develop and maintain relationships that soothe the soul. After a momentous meeting with the Dalai Lama, Love and Carlson began to develop an approach that would recalibrate the way they understood relationships and help us learn how to find the time to maintain friendships, be truly present for a partner, and reach out to people when in need.

Every week, thousands of women sit in church agonizing over their crumbling marriages. Seriously hurting marriages are not a popular topic in the church, and few resources have been available to help save the 50% of marriages in the church that end in divorce – until now. Written by a counselor whose marriage once nearly ended, this book will change the way you think about and do relationships – you'll learn the skills to work smarter, not harder, in relationships.

This all time best seller among relationship books, identifies the differences between men and women – men are from Mars, and women are from Venus, after all – and offers a series of simple solutions that help couples acknowledge and accept their differences and develop happier relationships. 

Practical and empowering. A 7-step program anyone can follow to revitalize even the most damaged marriage. Solution-oriented strategies for saving your marriage, coping with infidelity, internet obsessions, depression, sexual problems, midlife crises, etc. This program is effective even if your spouse has one foot out the door.

You have a fulfilling job, great friends, no shortage of dates. So what if you haven't found The One just yet. Surely he'll come along. But what if he doesn't? Or even worse, what if he already has, but you just didn't realize it? Suddenly finding herself forty, single, and having had a baby using a sperm donor, Lori Gottlieb said the unthinkable in her March 2008 article in The Atlantic: Maybe she and single women everywhere, needed to stop chasing the elusive Prince Charming and instead go for Mr. Good Enough. Looking at her friends' happy marriages to good enough guys who happen to be excellent husbands and fathers, Gottlieb declared it time to reevaluate what we really need in a partner. That's where Marry Him comes in. By looking at everything from culture to biology, Gottlieb frankly explores the dilemma that so many women today seem to face--and shares the wise guidance she gets from researchers, matchmakers, economists, couples therapists, divorce lawyers, etc--as well as single and married men and women, ranging in age from their twenties to their sixties.  It's a provocative wake- up call about getting real about Mr. Right.

Since 1994, this best-selling classic has been the go-to reference for couples that want to enhance their marriage and prevent divorce. This thoroughly revised and updated 3rd edition (which contains a new instructional DVD for couples) is based on the widely acclaimed PREP approach. Groundbreaking studies have found that couples who use the strategies of this proven approach are able to handle conflict more constructively, protect their happiness, and reduce the odds of breaking up.

When Laura Munson's essay was published, The NY Times was so flooded with responses that they had to close down the comment feature. Readers wrote saying they had sent the column to all of their friends, therapists that they were passing it out to their clients. Laura detailed what happened when her husband of more than twenty years told her he wasn't sure he loved her anymore and wanted to move out. Laura's response to her husband: I don't buy it.

An astonishing new science called neuroplasticity is overthrowing the centuries-old notion that the human brain is immutable. Meet the brilliant scientists championing neuroplasticity and the people whose lives they've transformed. From stroke patients learning to speak again to the remarkable case of a woman born with half a brain that rewired itself to work as a whole, I guarantee this book will permanently alter the way you look at brains, human nature, and human potential. - diane sollee

This bold, provocative new take on intimacy and sex invites us to explore the
paradoxical union of domesticity and sexual desire, and explains what it takes
to bring lust home. Through case studies and lively discussion, she
demonstrates how exciting, playful, and even poetic sex is possible in
long-term relationships. Wise, witty, and as revelatory as it is
straightforward, this book will transform the way you live and love.....and what you teach couples. 

How many ways are there to say 'I'm sorry?' It depends. Just as we have a different love languages, we also hear and express the words and gestures of apology in different languages. Chapman provides an easy to follow and quickly applicable communication tool to help couples and families heal. 

Unhappiness in marriage often has a simple root cause: we speak different love languages. Chapman identifies five love languages: Words of Affirmation, Quality Time, Receiving Gifts, Acts of Service, and Physical Touch and explains how you can discover your spouse's - and your own - love language and use that info to create lasting love. 

Men are right. "Relationship talk” does not help. This book reveals the stunning truth about marital happiness: Love is not about better communication. It's about connection. Men want closer marriages just as much as women do, but not if they has to act like a woman. The secret of the silent male is this: his wife supplies the meaning in his life. And so on.... tons of practical advice about the behaviors that make and break marriages. This essential guide will help couples find love beyond words. Or, to be perfectly clear, take a look at the Russian cover: /uploaded/Without.Talking.About.It.jpg

Recipient of the 2007 Smart Marriages Impact Award.
"Marriage and Caste in America is the best single book on the damage being done to our nation by the explosion of divorce and nonmarital births. Beginning with the widely ignored fact that it is minorities and the poor who are disproportionately affected by family breakdown, this provocative book presents a disturbing tale of cultural meltdown. Reading it is like reading a cultural obituary." - Ron Haskins

Illuminates the intense and ever-increasing national debate: Americans marry more repeatedly and have more live-in partners; marriage and remarriage, frequent divorce, and short-term cohabiting relationships have resulted in a core upheaval in American family life; and American children have been left to cope with the frequent and disruptive comings and goings of parents. Americans have come to embrace two contradictory values: marriage and individualism. The former promotes a lasting relationship; the latter encourages one to move on.

Challenging entrenched notions about what goeswrong in bad marriages, Hargrave suggests that in strong marriages there is an "us" that takesprecedence over the individual partners, and he shows couples how to support this third identity - the marriage.

What makes high-achievers different? And how can we apply this to become ever more succdessful as marriage educators? We must pay closer attention to our couples' culture, their family, their generation, and their Power Distance Index. This landmark work will simultaneously delight and illuminate.

For more than 14 years, heralded as one of the most valuable survival and recovery guides for men or women experiencing a partner's unfaithfulness. Using case studies, research, and her own experience, Peggy helps us understand the stages of suspicion, confrontation, and the healing process necessary to recovery. Includes her proven six-step program for establishing communication between partners that can actually prevent affairs and updated references (Monica Lewinsky, internet effects on relationships, etc.).

What makes a marriage work and stand the test of time? 19 experts provide advice and wisdom in this lively, practical collection of essays – the perfect gift for wedding showers and anniversaries, as well as for all those who are looking for ways to make their marriages stronger. All royalties from the book will be donated to nonprofit organizations that help victims of domestic violence, with the goal of making every home a safe home.

A totally new approach to developing sexual comfort and confidence. Sex is not about performance or proving something to yourself or your partner. Healthy couple sexuality is about sharing desire, pleasure, and satisfaction. It is about both people valuing intimacy, pleasuring, and eroticism, while maintaining positive, realistic expectations of the role and meaning of couple sexuality. The very concept of a couple sexual style is radically transformative and inspirational. It creates hope and confidence as couples realize that its in their power to create and maintain, decorate and refurbish their own style—together. -Diane Sollee

Guidance couples so desperately need to revitalize low-sex and no-sex marriages in a ten-step approach that utilizes practical guidelines and clear exercises that ease couples into working together as an intimate team to confront the guilt, anger, anxiety, shame ,and inhibitions which trap them, increase intimacy, pleasuring, and eroticism and develop their own broad based, flexible couple sexual style. Includes an individualized relapse prevention program to help couplesgeneralize gains and prevent relapse.

Down-to-earth advice for any couple who wants to strengthen their marriage and make it last a lifetime using this six-step program to commit, grow, nurture, understand, solve, and serve. Using a bountiful garden as a metaphor for a healthy marriage, the book encourages couples to invest time in growing their relationship, shine the light of encouragement on each other, deal with "bugs" and "thorns," and share time and resources to make the whole world blossom.

Fireproof Your Marriage challenges you to love for a lifetime! Founded on Biblical principles, this six-session in-home study includes a six-session DVD and two Participant's guides. The study integrates movie clips, key Scriptures, with thought-provoking questions and devotionals. Six sessions includes lessons on appreciating the God-designed differences between men and women, marriage as a lifelong covenant, conquering temptations that can destroy a marriage, & offering and receiving forgiveness.

Combine the power of The Love Dare with a Fireproof study on the Biblical concepts of unconditional love, freedom from temptation and the differences between men and women with the Couple's Bundle. Includes two copies of The Love Dare and one Fireproof Your Marriage Couple's Kit - an in-home study that integrates Fireproof movie clips with Scripture and thought-provoking questions. Kit includes a six-session DVD and two Participant's Guides. $39.95 a $20 saving off the retail value by buying the combo.

This warm and practical guide will help readers keep or retrieve the love, closeness, and intimacy everyone wants from marriage - written by two experienced marriage and relationship educators who have been married 30 yrs, guides couples to avoid relationship damage and create lasting love, with unique insights and examples from their own marriage and experiences teaching relationship skills around the world.

Heralded by the New York Times as the couple therapy with the highest rate of success, Emotionally Focused Therapy works because it views the love relationship as an attachment bond. This idea, once controversial, has become widely popular among therapists. In HOLD ME TIGHT, Johnson translates her model for the general public –  introduces the concept of "effective dependency", key moments  - from Recognizing the Demon Dialogue to Revisiting a Rocky Moment, and seven healing conversations. Through case studies and practical exercises, couples learn how to nurture their relationships and ensure a lifetime of love.

In this instructive and inspirational book, Mark and Debra Laaser teach us how to have richer relationships with God and others. Using stories and straightforward observations, they examine seven desires we all share, and illustrate how understanding those desires can enhance our marriages and relationships and enrich our lives.

"This book is revolutionary, compassionate, clear, practical and generous. Revolutionary and compassionate in that it will change forever the way we understand emotional abuse and the heart of the abuser. Clear and practical in that it gives easy-to-follow, step-by-step guidelines for recovery. Generous in that it's all there -- the whole approach. Nothing else to buy. I highly recommend it to couples and to anyone working with couples." - Diane Sollee

This best-selling book offers hope to everyone, even those teetering on the edge of divorce. Easy-to-understand, inspirational in tone, DB is the classic relationship instruction manual.

Weiner Davis explains that you are not alone, and it is not your fault: there is a whole host of reasons why your husband might be experiencing low desire. She's also convinced that understanding the cause of a problem won't make your sex life any juicier; doing something about it will. She gives you the tools you need to present the information in the book so that your husband will not become defensive. You'll learn methods for overcoming sexual dysfunctions such as performance anxiety, premature ejaculation, and effective ways for dealing with pornography or infidelity. The straightforward, psychobabble-free advice in this book will help you create the intimacy and connection for which you've been longing.

When one spouse is dissatisfied and the other unwilling to consider their partner's feelings, sex isn't the only casualty - intimacy on every level simply ceases - making infidelity or divorce a real threat. This straight-shooting book outlines a plan to help both partners behave in ways that makes true intimacy a real possibility. A must read for couples struggling with a desire gap or who believe the myth that desire is something that should "just happen".

This pro-male, pro-sex, pro-marriage book, written by, for and about men, is organized around three main topics - awareness and enhancement of sexuality, dealing with sexual problems, and lifelong healthy sexuality. Another way to put it is that it helps men deal with the challenge of integrating intimacy without losing their sense of eroticism and accepting the Good Enough Sex model rather than clinging to the male dominant, perfect intercourse performance approach. It tackles the barriers and problems that limit sexual practice, discusses how to enhance sexual satisfaction and offers understanding of and solutions for problems such as premature ejaculation, erectile dysfunction, inhibited sexual desire, ejaculatory inhibition and compulsive sexual behavior. Exercises and activities provide skills training, and stimulate healthy sexual practice.

Based on 30 years of longitudinal research on the "masters and disasters" of marriage, Gottman provides powerful evidence - and concrete guidelines - for making marriage work. Turns out, "emotionally intelligent" marriages have friendship at their center.

An upbeat, easy-to-follow manual based on research into the dynamics of married couples. Gottman describes his studies as being akin to a CAT scan of a living relationship and asserts that he's been able to predict the future of marriages with an accuracy rate of over 90 percent. He concludes that a lasting relationship results from a couple's ability to resolve conflicts and he offers a four-step program for breaking through negativity and allowing one's natural communication and problem-solving abilities to flourish.

This inspiring book shows how our unrealistic expectations have made marriage more fragilethan ever before and offers a practical new vision of marriage as a wonderful opportunity tolearn and practice virtues in the shared pursuit of a couple's deepest ideals.The book is filled with examples of how tocultivate friendship, loyalty, generosity, and other virtues.

Identify & break free of attitudes and assumptions that can chip away at even the happiest marriage - treating marriage like a consumer purchase, confusing desires with needs, becoming overtime parents and part-time spouses, and giving in to unintentional sabotage from family, friends, or helping professionals. Learn how to stay alert to marital drift, create energizing marriage rituals, and how to restore a relationship worth saving, even when it seems too late.

The baby boomer generation is under siege. Their aging parents need care. Their adult children are moving back home. And they are going back to work because retirement savings are running out. This book helps boomers negotiate the difficult changes, and see how God figures into these changes and how their faith can help them through.

Wake up, America: We’re raising a nation of wimps. They can’t make their own decisions, cope with anxiety, lack leadership skills, and as college graduates can’t even negotiate their own salaries without bringing mom or dad in for a consult. Hothouse parents are raising teacup children—brittle and breakable, instead of strong and resilient. This crisis threatens to destroy the fabric of our society, to undermine both our democracy and economy. Without future leaders or daring innovators, where will we go? What can be done?

Weddings bring out the best and worst in us because they combine romance, money, loyalties, jealousies, new in-law relations, and endless practical decisions – all played out in front of your community of family and friends! No one gets through this without times of frustration, confusion, and sometimes anger. This book is an essential guide to handing the stress, avoiding the common pitfalls, having a great wedding, and launching a successful marriage.

With optimism, enthusiasm, brilliance and wit, Dr. Pittman reassures us that the secret of happiness lies in being an adult, commiting ourselves to personal honor and integrity, and reconsidering our adult roles in families and society.

It's happened to everyone: you meet someone, fall madly in love and all good judgment and perspective go out the window until slowly you realize this person isn't who you thought he/she was. Follow this proven program and 5 key areas for picking a partner and break the destructive relationship & dating patterns that lead to failure.

In The Secrets of Happily Married Men we learn that the key is for men to treat marriage with the same sense of purpose, resolve, and single-minded devotion that they have for their job. While that works for men – an entirely different set of criteria resonate with women. In The Secrets of Happily Married Women we learn that the happy wives are the ones that know how to get more out of their partners by doing less, by not trying so hard to make men perfect, not dragging them to couples therapy, not expecting them to think or behave like a woman. Learn the secrets – how to tap into men's powerful hard-wired desire to please women and "be a better man."

A book and and FREE online profile that identifies a couple's strengths to help them build a more vital relationship utilizing principles based on an a national survey of 50,000 marriages. For dating, engaged, or married couples. The book also includes the SCOPE Personality Profile and the Couple and Family Map of the relationship and each chapter incudes couple exercises to help build couple strengths in a variety of areas.

"The world has largely given up on the idea that men might be fit for family life and cooperative, communicative equality with women. Haltzman to the rescue. He addresses the pain and confusion of guys trying to answer Freud’s ‘What does a woman want?’, or, more germane, ‘What does a woman’s therapist want?’ Crammed with good advice for men and with cues to help women understand what if feels like to be a man - should be on the bedside table of any marriage with a man in it." - Frank Pittman

Good people in good marriages are having affairs at work and on the Internet. Learn how to clarify commitment, validate rational jealousy, and use "wall and windows" safeguards to prevent platonic friendships from crossing the line into an extramarital relationship. Click to see what the experts are saying about Not Just Friends.

An emotional and triumphant journey written through the perspectives of the people involved -- the betrayed wife, the misunderstood husband, the wounded children, the "other woman" or the friends or family members who desperately want to offer comfort. There is much to be learned from someone who writes as though she is speaking to you in person and who offers all kinds of ideas for healing from infidelity - or for avoiding it in the first place.

Hendrix combines what he's learned in a number of disciplines, including cognitive and Gestalt therapies to help couples transform their relationship into a Conscious Marriage -- a lasting source of love and companionship. With exercises that quickly get everyone's cards on the table, he covers what it takes to get past the most common forms of relationship dysfunction and teaches the essential practice of "becoming passionate friends".

A companion workbook to the enormously successful New York Times bestselling relationship book, Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples. Contains a unique twelve-week course (The New Couples' Study Guide) designed to help work through the exercises in Part III of Getting the Love You Want.

This classic best-seller identifies the ten most vital needs of men and women and shows husbands and wives how to satisfy those needs in their spouses with guidance for "becoming irresistible to your spouse" and for loving more creatively and sensitively, thereby eliminating the problems that often lead to extramarital affairs.

A five-step plan—based on groundbreaking research and a uniquely spiritual approach— helps couples understand commitment and includes learning to move through the pain of unfulfilled dreams and hopes, overcoming attraction to others, transforming thinking from "me versus you" to "we" and "us," and capturing the beauty of lifelong devotion, loyalty, teamwork, and building a lasting vision for the future.

Reclaim that old spark, connection, and creativity in your marriage through ten memory-making dates based on marriage-enriching themes. This proven approach to relationship growth is low-key, purposeful, effective, easy, and fun.
“You will love growing together while going out together.”-John Gray

It’s just the two of you again and it’s time to renew your relationship. You can reconnect and reclaim that same spark, excitement, and creativity you experienced before you had kids through ten innovative, fun dates. “This book will fill your empty nest with fun, friendship, and romance. It is refreshing to read a book about marriage written by people who don’t just believe in marriage but actually understand how it works.” - John Gray, Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus

A unique approach featuring fun-filled dates to help seriously dating and engaged couples strengthen their relationship. Couples will soon discover whether or not to go to the next level of commitment, and will spend quality time together now while preparing for a great marriage in the future.

Feeling overscheduled and underconnected? Learn how to make every moment together count with practical, accessible, guidelines to help you identify and maximize and combine your two unique time styles. This is not a book about being more productive—it’s a book about being more connected as a couple.

Identifies the 7 stages and gives ways to maintain the good (as in the first stage: passion) or getting through the not-so-good phases (as in the second stage when you wake up and realize that your marriage is not all magic all the time) with helpful information on each page illustrated by the stories of real-life couples. Useful for  couples who are getting married, are married, or are considering divorce. - Scott Haltzman

"Some years ago, a young couple came to the University of Washington to visit the laboratory of a psychologist named John Gottman..." How to understand our ability to make snap judgments, and how to educate and hone this ability to make it work for us.

Based on a pioneering new national study, this book challenges the idea of the "good divorce," arguing that while an amicable divorce is certainly better than a bitter one, even amicable divorces sow lasting inner conflict in the lives of children. It is the first nationally representative study to examine the moral and spiritual impact of divorce on children, and the only major study authored by a young scholar who was herself a child of divorce.

Think one-or two-paragraph soundbites and bullet-pointed checklists from Gray's mega-selling relationship bible focused on the perennial miscommunication problems that can sink a marriage - a portable, easy-to-use set of tips to keep your marriage ship shape.

How to harness the connection between stress, blood sugar, body fat, and behavior to create lifelong passion and better health keeping in mind that the differences between the sexes, and how they relate to one another, are biochemically based and can be explained–and managed–by our hormones.Includes small, easy steps for super-stimulating the hormones necessary to nourish a vibrant life. He explores how communication, romance, ''a superfood diet, super exercise, and super sleep,'' can be incorporated into any lifestyle, to create a super marriage.

Once upon a time, Martians and Venusians functioned in separate worlds. But in today's hectic and career-oriented environment, relationships have become a lot more complicated, and men and women are experiencing unprecedented levels of stress. To add to the tension, most men and women are unaware that they are hardwired to react differently to the stress. We're not on the same page, anger and resentment set in, and we collide. Gray, backed up by groundbreaking research, arms us with the information we need to live harmoniously ever after.

A hard-hitting, groundbreaking, research-based exploration of the new mating conditions that are changing the face of love, commitment, and marriage as we know it. A double revolution is at work in modern American love: A revolution in higher education has created the most professionally accomplished and independent generation of young women in history, and a revolution in mating has created a prolonged and perplexing search for Mr. Right.

"Aimed at real people coping with the real problems of living together -- couples with pretty good marriages and very good intentions but a faulty instruction book on life and relationships. This workbook is wise, optimistic, and a lot of fun." - Frank Pittman

An easy-to-use, low-cost version of PREP - the world’s most successful marriage enhancement program. This book requires a commitment to 12 hours of relationship work and offers specific data, guidelines, proven methods, examples, anecdotes, self-tests, and exercises to do together and individually. For anyone who wants to enhance and preserve their relationship, the PREP method works.

What every couple needs to know to understand what really makes a marriage work. Clear, helpful guidelines for creating a healthy marriage and strategies, skills, and attitudes that to prevent disappointment, resentment and alienation from entering the relationship.

It’s not easy being a parent—and handling the disrespectful outburts of children in a reasonable, unemotional manner when they’re acting like "little monsters." Parents need help, but not help that requires that they be a genius, saint or professional psychotherapist. Learn how your silence can speak louder than your words.

Living with a teenager is no picnic. There are times when you must bite your tongue as your kids push towards independence. Or—if you sense there is trouble—there are times when you must take charge. Discover how to tell normal teenage behavior from problem behavior, and learn the relationship between parent/teen communication and adolescent safety

The classic that helped millions of parents raise emotionally intelligent children is now revised and updated. Ginott’s warm and practical narrative can help any person who works with or cares about children.

Revolutionary program for repairing troubled relationships - with spouses, lovers, children, family members, friends, boss or colleagues. Provides tools including the empowering concept of the "emotional bid," the fundamental unit of emotional connection. All good relationships are built through a process of making and receiving successful bids that range from such subtle gestures as a quick question, a look, or a comment to the most probing and intimate ways we communicate.

Coleman isn't afraid to tell the truth: not all marriages can be joyful at all times, but that isn't a cause for divorce, especially with children involved. Even if your marriage is never going to be the one you dreamed of, you can still live happily ever after. With practical advice and genuine empathy, Coleman encourages spouses to stick it out: their marriage may not change drastically for the better, he says – but then again, it just might.

Based on research from real couples, this book gives you the basic steps for creating and maintaining passion in your marriage. Easy to read, down-to- earth and full of user-friendly information that will help you understand and transform common sexual issues.Audiotape versions with workbook: 512-891-0610

Help couples prepare for a life-long marriage, strengthen an existing one or save a troubled one with mentoring couples that have proven effective at every stage, and guidelines for how to jump-start programs in churches united in "Community Marriage Policies" that have reduced divorce rates of metro areas by as much as 35%. To order: Marriage Savers, 9311 Harrington Dr., Potomac, MD 20854.

The inspiring stories of more than twenty couples whose marriages were restored, even after being deemed hopeless by their friends, family, counselors – even pastors – offer hope for any troubled marriage. Each overcame devastating circumstances such as adultery, sexual addiction, clinical depression, bankruptcy, substance abuse, and the loss of their children.  Each story is connected to a ministry that helped them with contact information at the end of each story and a detailed marriagehelp resource guide.

He carried his wife to freedom on his scarred and beaten back - that's really all you need to know about John Little." But journalist DeRamus reveals more about Little and a dozen or so others in this uplifting and sometimes heartbreaking look at love during the U.S.'s slavery years in this collection of fascinating stories of men and women who took extraordinary measures, risking life and limb to be together.

A groundbreaking exploration of our most complex and mysterious emotion. Elation, mood swings, sleeplessness, and obsession -- these are the tell-tale signs of someone in the throes of romantic passion. In this revealing new book, renowned anthropologist Fisher explains why this experience -- which cuts across time, geography, and gender -- is a force as powerful as the need for food or sleep.

Interactive workbook to help engaged, pre-engaged and newlywed couples discover the practical insights, scriptural principles, and must-have relationship skills they need to experience all marriage has to offer. Ideal pre-marital program for pastors, counselors, small group leaders, and mentor couples that can be used with a relationship inventory or solo.

Discover how to fall in love by meeting each other's important emotional needs; stay in love by avoiding habits that chip away at your love; and, finally, master the art of negotiating to create a compatible lifestyle. With these essential steps in place, you and your spouse will enjoy a romantic,passionate, life-long love for each other and a happy, successful marriage.

A best-selling clearly-written, optimistic handbook for prospective and current stepfamilies providing solid information, practical suggestions and comforting support. Relationships old and new are explored with telling examples and sensible advice.

Women have changed in the last twenty-five years–they've become powerful, independent, self-confident, and happy. Yet many men remain irresponsible and emotionally detached. They don’t know how to respond to frustrated partners who just want their mates to show up and grow up. Real identifies five non-starters to avoid and shares practical strategies for bringing honesty, passion, and joy back to even the most difficult relationship.

The Arps, based on their survey of hundreds of couples, reveal 8 challenges that all long-term marriages face and give practical strategies to meet each. A timely book as baby boomers turn 50!

This book provides a roadmap for ambivalent, indecisive spouses, introducing 12 pragmatic Controlled Separation® Guidelines and a sample contract. In turn, adversarial couples discover how best to cooperatively negotiate a time-limited, viable separation agreement. As partners cool down and slow down, they are well prepared to make wiser decisions that spare children and families undue trauma.

A sensible guide for sustaining a loving relationship (avoiding the superficial "tips and gimmicks" as well as the rigid "techniques" of most self-help books); also great for newlyweds.

John Curtis, a leading organizational development consultant and former marriage counselor applies proven business strategies to "divorce-proof" intimate relationships and even turnaround rocky relationships. Provides a step-by-step approach on how to apply business concepts to marriage, such as writing a marital vision statement or a detailed job description for the husband and wife, or how to set up a performance appraisals process and compensation system for a marriage.

“How To Love Your Wife is filled with insights for young men looking for their soul mate and young husbands trying to figure out how to be good to the woman they love.  In this day when young men and women desperately want to avoid divorce and find lasting love, John Buri lays down a roadmap.”    - Maggie Gallagher

10 strategies for readers to reach better self-understanding and ultimately a fulfilling relationship. Filled with revealing anecdotes, case studies, and quizzes, the book’s down-to-earth guidance will appeal to everyone who devoured books like Mars and Venus on a Date and Getting the Love You Want, and anyone who wants a fulfilling intimate relationship.  "Behold a wonder–a romantic self-help book that is intelligent, upbeat, practical, useful, winning, and even wise." –Kirkus Reviews

The Cinderella fairy tale continues, describing how the royal couple experiences the same conflicts all couples do. Written with wit and whimsy, the book tells how Fairy Godmother and Caring Godfather teach the couple specific steps to help them live happily ever after. The Meyersons' unique insight provides you with the skills needed for a joyful and harmonious relationship with your life partner. The Wedding Edition includes a special introduction and makes an ideal engagement gift.
– A delightful book, sheer genius. Give this to every newlywed you know. Diane Sollee, Director, Smart Marriages.

An effective relationship strategy based on subtle, powerful changes in your own actions. This method shows you the magic of “Keep your mouth out of it!” Page’s pioneering eight-step program invites you to give up problem solving and move directly to a warmer, more loving and fun relationship, based on universal spiritual principles.

Walter studies marriage in Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables, James' The Beast in the Jungle, Morrison's Beloved, Percy's The Thanatos Syndrome, and Frazier's Cold Mountain. By proposing the image of marriage as an aesthetic principle in literature, Walter is making us aware that the forms of our lives are deeply embedded in and yet shaped by the narratives that are among our guiltiest and most profound pleasures."—Robert Dupree, from the foreword

"This is the perfect resource for all who are considering stepfamily living or have already committed. It is not just a book about stepfamilies, but instead a detailed manual on how to create a strong stepfamily unit. The ideas and strategies are clear and compelling. Be prepared to enjoy coming home!" - Jon Carlson

Ron Deal, the leading Christian remarriage authority, and David Olson, a seasoned marriage and family expert, give couples hope that they can have strong, healthy marriages. Their advice grows out of Olson's National Survey of Couples Creating Stepfamilies, the largest study of its kind ever conducted. As couples work through the chapters in conjunction with an online Couple Checkup, they'll discover ways to improve all aspects of their marriage and build on its strengths.

How to Untangle Those Everyday Frustrations and Arguments That Keep You from Being With the One You Love with chapters like: Read My Mind!, See No Evil, Who Cares?, Just Skip It, I Knew It, Ass-u-me.

Since the 60s, the number of couples living together before marriage has increased significantly. The theory that couples could "practice" seemed a perfect solution to an increasingly higher divorce rate. "After all," many argued, "if we live together first, we will really know if we're compatible." The sad reality is that the divorce rate is actually higher for couples who cohabit. Mike & Harriet explain that you can not practice permanence and why to be successful a marriage must be approached as permanent. Learn the many reasons why cohabitation is not the answer and the important principles that really do give couples the necessary tools for successful marriage.

This book proves that while the pain of sexual betrayal can break your heart, it doesn't have to break your life.Laaser offers practical and proven tools to help women struggling with sexual betrayal make wise and empowered decisions inspired by the author’s personal journey through betrayal, her work with hundreds of hurting women, and her intimate marriage two decades after the disclosure of her husband’s infidelity.

Before singles can find their soul mate, they must overcome their skepticism about dating, love, and marriage.

Cloe Madanes—an expert in creating healing, empowering relationships—gives readers vital, cutting-edge tools to create rewarding, sustainable relationships. Using simple, step-by-step exercises and drawing on the examples of clients she ties the guiding principles of Tony Robbins's work with her own revolutionary approach to relationship therapy to help us understand and achieve the fundamental needs we all have.

This book offers practical, concrete strategies for strengthening your relationship before or after an affair -- strategies for building trust, kindling sexual intimacy, and considering forgiveness in ways that are human and attainable. Finalist, Best Relationship Book, Books for a Better Life Award

Is forgiveness always healthy -- even when the offender is unremorseful or dead? Spring proposes an authentic, life-affirming alternative to help overcome the corrosive effects of hate and get on with life -- without forgiving. She also develops a radically new concept of genuine forgiveness and details concrete steps for earning forgiveness.

Our campuses are steeped in political correctness—with dire consequences. Psychiatrist Miriam Grossman has treated more than 2,000 students at one of America’s most prestigious universities, and she’s seen how the anything-goes, women-are-just-like-men, “safer-sex” agenda is actually making our sons and daughters sick. What campus counselors and health providers must do, she argues, is tell uncomfortable, politically incorrect truths. Instead of platitudes and misinformation, it’s time to offer them real protection - for example, girls and women are bombarded with information about preventing pregnancy, but do not receive adequate medical information about fertility risks caused by advanced age. Recipient of the 2010 Smart Marriages Impact Award.

This book reports the results of a Survey on Extramarital Affairs with 1,083 participants whose spouses had affairs. Each answered 35 questions including: "How could therapists be more effective in dealing with affairs?" From the many comments offered, 12 points of "Advice to Therapists" are included, along with the direct quotes from respondents. The information is useful not only for therapists to more effectively dealing with this issue--but also to help those who are struggling to recover from a spouse's affair.

Buy this groundbreaking book... Then follow the steps and never eat lunch alone again! Learn the secrets and how-to's that turn boards and supporters into legions of powerful mission partners. Imagine generating millions without spending a ton of extra time, money or making big changes. Full of golden nuggets that workl for the seasoned veteran and the novice fundraiser. "If you don't have the chance to hear Marshall speak, make this your relationship-building Bible." Bob Olson, VP, Medical Foundation "I wish I could make this book required reading for everyone in the Marriage Education field." Diane Sollee, Director, Smart Marriages.